“Irving Kane Pond: A Michigan Architect in Chicago,” an old publication of Professor Emeritus Guy Szuberla’s, has been reprinted as the introduction to a new book, The Autobiography of Irving Kane Pond (Oak Park, Illinois: Hyoogen Pr., 2009). Pond (1857-1939) is perhaps best known as the architect of the Hull-House complex in Chicago, the Michigan Union (Ann Arbor), and his work on Pullman, Illinois, the model city. He was working on the manuscript of his autobiography when he died in 1939.
David Swan, a Chicago architect, and Terry Tatum, Supervising Historian and Director of Research for the Landmarks Division [City of Chicago], edited the text of the autobiography and gathered the several hundred photos and line drawings that accompany it. Their work was supported by a grant from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts.
A new booklet, Guide to the English Major at the University of Toledo, is now available in the English Department main office. The Guide describes the four concentrations within the English Major, lists their requirements and the courses that meet each requirement, and gives information on English Honors, graduate study, scholarships, and faculty specialties. The booklet will be useful for majors as well as students considering the major, and so faculty of all 2000-, 3000-, and 4000-level literature and creative writing courses may want to pick up a few copies to bring to their classes. The Guide was written by Andrew Mattison and Tim Geiger.
Michael Piotrowski, English Department Senior Lecturer, received a third place award in the Adult 2-D division of the UT Lake Erie Center 2009 Art Contest for his watercolor painting, “Washed Ashore.” Entries were expected to reflect the theme of “Nature on Maumee Bay.”
His painting illustrates a number of items you can find washed up on the beach of Lake Erie. He says, “I am particularly fond of finding sea glass—bits of broken glass washed smooth by the action of the lake water waves. They represent how the lake is influenced by both natural and man-made forces.”
Dr. Carol Stepien, Director of the Lake Erie Center presented awards to contest winners at a reception on Thursday, September 17 in the lobby of the LEC. The artworks will be on display in the Center during the month of October. For more information about the LEC, visit their website: http://www.utoledo.edu/as/lec/.
Freshly released from Praeger Press of ABC-CLIO, is Barbara Mann’s most recent book, The Tainted Gift: The Disease Method of Frontier Advance (2009).
She also just returned from keynoting an awards ceremony and leading student workshops in NY The keynote address was “The Jigonsaseh, Woman of Peace” at the 2009 Jigonsaseh Women of Peace Awards, Indigenous Women’s Initiative, Buffalo State College. 19 September 2009. The workshop was with Native American Studies Students at SUNY–Buffalo, 18 September 2009.
Rane Arroyo’s poem, “The Buried Sea”, which was included in his collection published by University of Arizona Press, was published in Mid-American Review, Volume XXIX #1: pages 21-22.
Lijuan Zhang and Min Wang, who were visiting scholars in the English Department 2008-9, are shown here with Professor Bill Free in this picture taken during their stay with us last academic year. Both are teachers at National University of Defense Technology in Changsha, Hunan Province, China. They recently e-mailed department Chair Sara Lundquist to say hello.
Professor Douglas W. Coleman recently presented two papers at the August 4-8 annual conference of the Linguistic Association of Canada and the United States (LACUS), which was sponsored by Pitzer College of the Claremont Colleges, Claremont, CA. On one paper, “Lies and Lying in Hard-science Linguistics,” he was a co-author with Bernard Sypniewski (Rowan University), and was single author of the other, “Theory of Mind in Hard-science Linguistics.” Prof. Coleman also serves as the current Conference Program Chair for LACUS.
Professor Emeritus Larry Dessner sent us the following news about our late colleague, Professor Richard Cheney.
The University of Iowa Library has a collection of Leigh Hunt letters newly on line. The acknowledgments page includes this:
Creation of Leigh Hunt Online: The Letters has been made possible by the generous contribution from the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation.
We are very grateful for the kind permission of Mrs. Patricia Cheney, who allowed us to incorporate her late husband’s scholarly work into the project and furthermore agreed to transfer copyrights attached to her husband’s work to the University of Iowa Libraries.
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Jane Bradley’s story collection Are We Lucky Yet? Was a Runner Up in the AWP Grace Paley Short Fiction Competition with a rave review from the judge Allan Gurganus that notes: Comedy alongside heartache, these stories croon honky-tonk ballads after closing-time. They wade in loss but keep scanning for a Coast Guard rescue copter. Astute about the nuances of sliding social class, the stories are tough, direct, grimly funny. We witness a parked-truck sexual encounter between one |
From 26 July to 1 August, 2009, Barbara Alice Mann ventured to Australia, brought in as the honored guest of the University of Newcastle, in the state of New South Wales, near Sydney, Australia. Based on her well-known book, George Washington’s War on Native America (2005, pb 2008), as well as advance buzz on The Tainted Gift:The Disease Method of Frontier Advance (2009), currently in production, she was there as a member of a hand-selected group of international scholars studying massacres of Native peoples around the world during colonial period from 1780 to 1820. On 30 July, as part of her tenure, Mann gave a well-received lecture, “Conquest of Empire,” to the humanities faculty of the University. In addition, she workshopped with her colleagues, planning a book on the same topic, for which she will be writing three chapters. Mann’s chapters will center on the “Creek War,” also called “The Red Sticks War,” of 1813-1814. This book will come out in 2012. In addition, along with each of her colleagues, she will produce an 8,000-word article for a special issue of a British Commonwealth journal on colonialism, to be published in 2010. Much as she enjoyed working with her international colleagues, Mann says that she most enjoyed her visit with the aboriginal peoples of Australia, comparing notes, drinking tea, and eating delicacies.